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Angelwings Ch 1Tom sat at the window, waiting for the inevitable.

Finally the sky was heavy with snow, and bruised clouds hung low to the horizon, turgid with the potential storm. Even the light held a yellow tinge where it managed to seep through to the world below. The ground had been frozen for days, the trees stark and naked against the sky, stretching up their arms as though they wanted to pierce holes in the clouds, but still no snow had come.

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It was an average, ordinary thing for her. It was a beautiful, unappreciated thing, like a swallow of water on a warm day, with no realisation that the beautiful cohesion of two hydrogen and one oxygen molecule would continue to give life and movement to her body. She walked through life like everyone else, a waking moment in the morning, tea slipping down her stagnant throat, the crunch of toast and the sweetness of honey in her mouth. A walk to work, the pavements grey and the sky grey above, the sitting at her desk and moving paper about and the constant fluorescent hum of the computer monitor as the mouse made spider tracks acros

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:iconaconitum-napellus:
This is the top floor of the multistorey car park in Llandudno. It was dark, it was cold, I was waiting...
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~naty23 Jan 9, 2008
love it ... there is something about it ... can't quite put my finger on it xx
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